Compliance Governance & Oversight Lead

About the role

Anthropic's Integrity & Compliance (I&C) function is building the systems that let us scale responsibly as our products reach more people, more enterprises, and more regulated industries. Our global compliance program is bespoke, reflecting our unique mission and position as one of the leading AI labs operating on the frontier.

The Governance & Oversight pillar is the operational and structural backbone of Integrity & Compliance. It owns the frameworks, policies, controls testing, training, GRC tooling, and reporting that hold the rest of the function together — and that allow Anthropic to demonstrate accountability to employees, customers, regulators, and the public as the company scales.

We're hiring a Compliance Governance & Oversight Lead to set the strategy for how compliance governance works at Anthropic, own the systems and reporting that give leadership a clear line of sight into program health, and partner with the leads of our other I&C pillars — Privacy Programs, Regulatory Programs, and Corporate Compliance — to ensure their work is supported by a coherent operating model.

This is a senior leadership role in a function being built from the ground up. You'll have significant autonomy to shape the design of the pillar, and you'll build and develop the team that runs it. You'll report to the Head of Integrity & Compliance.

Key responsibilities

• Set the strategy for compliance governance and oversight at Anthropic, defining how policies, controls, training, and reporting come together into a coherent operating model across the I&C function

• Own the policy lifecycle end-to-end — drafting standards, approval workflows, version control, attestation, and accessibility — and ensure Anthropic's compliance policies are current, coherent, and demonstrably communicated

• Lead selection, implementation, and ongoing administration of the GRC platform that serves as the central system of record for I&C, including risk tracking, control documentation, issue management, and workflow

• Design and run the controls testing and monitoring program across all I&C pillars, partnering with pillar leads to verify controls are operating as intended and to surface gaps before they become issues

• Own the compliance training program, working with subject matter experts across I&C to develop, deliver, and evidence training that meets regulatory requirements and embeds compliance into how the company operates

• Drive issue management across the function — ensuring findings, exceptions, and remediation are documented, owned, escalated where needed, and driven to closure

• Build the metrics, dashboards, and reporting cadences that give the Head of I&C, the broader leadership team and Internal Audit a clear view of program health, key risks, and strategic priorities

• Prepare and present compliance reporting to leadership synthesizing inputs from across pillars into clear narratives

• Coordinate the function's responses to compliance-related due diligence requests from customers, partners, and investors

• Manage the I&C budget and vendor portfolio, providing the administrative foundation for the function's operations

• Build and develop the Governance & Oversight team as the pillar's scope and headcount grow, and embed a culture of practical, well-eviden…